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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song does the narrator listen to just before falling asleep at the waterfront?
(a) I'm Comin' Home.
(b) Danny Boy.
(c) Blowin' in the Wind.
(d) A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall.

2. Where does the shadow tell the narrator they're going?
(a) To the barracks.
(b) To the Woods.
(c) To the Watchtower.
(d) To the Pool.

3. What does the narrator do with the skull at the end of Chapter 37?
(a) He disposes of it.
(b) He leaves it at the subway station.
(c) He gives it to the librarian as a gift.
(d) He sends it to the chubby girl.

4. What does the Librarian compare the warmth of the narrator's hand to?
(a) The sun.
(b) A fire.
(c) The Summer.
(d) The Spring.

5. Why don't the Librarian and the narrator talk on the way to the Power Station?
(a) They have run out of things to say to each other.
(b) They are worried someone will hear them.
(c) The Librarian is still angry that they narrator decided to go against her will.
(d) There's no need to talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does the narrator quote when the librarian asks how he sees himself?

2. Why does the Caretaker collect the instruments?

3. What is the last thing the shadow tells the narrator?

4. What does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?

5. Where does the chubby girl say her grandfather has gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene when the narrator first enters the laundromat.

2. Explain the parallels between the video game the narrator plays at the beginning of Chapter 35 and his life.

3. How does the narrator react to the musical instruments in Chapter 28?

4. Describe the Town's power source.

5. Describe how the narrator's shadow is living at the beginning of Chapter 32.

6. What does the chubby girl plan to do once the narrator loses consciousness, and why?

7. What is "the encyclopedia wand"?

8. How does the narrator explain his decision in Chapter 40?

9. What does the narrator do after arriving in his apartment in Chapter 31?

10. Explain what the Professor says is a way out of the situation the narrator finds himself in in Chapter 27 and why it would work.

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